The ‘Hormone Factory’ – your action requested

Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter

June 25, 2009

ACL thanks its Queensland supporters for emailing politicians to urge them to remove the ‘Hormone Factory’ website from the Education Department’s list of acceptable sex education resources.

The website for 10-12 year-olds crosses the line between educating children and presenting questionable value-laden material – it teaches children, among other things, that you don’t need to be in love to have sex, abortion can be “a relief”, and it is normal to be gay or bisexual.

If you haven’t already done so, please send an email to Queensland politicians asking the Education Department to remove its endorsement of the website. Relevant contact details are:

ACL has since learnt that the website is also endorsed by the Victorian and Tasmanian governments.

It is promoted on Victoria’s Better Health Channel website, which claims to be “Australia's most popular health and medical website”.

A page to help parents talk about sex education with primary school children suggests: “Use the Internet – log onto a good website, like The Hormone Factory, and let your child browse alone.”

In Tasmania, the Hormone Factory is endorsed on the Linkzone website, () a portal designed for 12 to 25 year olds by the Office of Children and Youth Affairs, a branch of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. It says that “This fun site has information for 10 to 12 year olds on stuff like periods, girls’ bits, boy’s bits, puberty and making babies.”

We encourage supporters in Victoria and Tasmania to contact the relevant Minister responsible for the websites to ask them to remove the endorsement of the Hormone Factory. Contact details are: